The great guitarist Alan Holdsworth was briefly a member on Bundles (their ... Having never seen any incarnation of the band I was excited to see that Soft Machine had announced their 50th ...

Mike Ratledge, keyboardist and founding member of the English rock band Soft Machine, has died. He was 81. Soft Machine’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed his former bandmate’s death in a ...

Ratledge was with Soft Machine when it started in 1966, and was the last founding member to leave the band in 1976. Louder called Soft Machine “pioneers of both progressive rock and jazz fusion.” ...

And so, with Etheridge, Babbington and Marshall not just band alum but actually players who worked together in Soft Machine for roughly sixteen months, from 1975 through '76, the current lineup not ...

The band name says it all. Three members of this quartet worked at different times in the original Soft Machine whilst the fourth has assumed the mantle once taken by the late and lamented musician, ...

If this shifting array of band names and members sounds confusing, it is. “We picked the name Soft Machine Legacy, which was really unnecessary because we could legitimately have been (billed as ...

Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist and a co-founder of English rock band Soft Machine, has died, the band’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed. He was 81 years old. “Incredibly sad news that my ...

Later members have included Hugh Hopper ... Recorded in Paris were among the last for Soft Machine as a working band. The Soft Machine name was used for the 1981 record Land of Cockayne with ...

In addition to being the longest remaining original member of Soft Machine—sticking around from their 1966 self-titled debut to 1976’s Softs—Ratledge was also arguably the band’s most ...

Although surrounded by classical music, Ratledge went on to carve his own path in the music industry when he helped form the rock band Soft Machine. Besides his time with Soft Machine, Ratledge ...

He was 81. The news came via current Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge, who joined the band in 1975, near the end of Ratledge’s time in it. “Incredibly sad news that my great friend and ...